(n.) One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Personally, I sometimes wish drugs would be made legal so that the gringos can get high and we can live in peace," said Tijuana police officer Elisio Montes, whose two best friends, his former boss and assistant, were murdered by executioners for the cartels.
(2) Afterwards, the camera played over the faces of the executioners, ensuring that the foreign fighters were clearly visible and sparking a rush to name them.
(3) Maurie Levin, one of a team of lawyers working on the new Texas litigation, said that “if nothing else, Mr Lockett’s execution in Oklahoma makes clear that you can’t simply take the word of the executioner that everything will be OK. Access to information is necessary to be able to determine whether we are at risk of an execution like what happened last night.” The second scheduled execution is that of Russell Bucklew, 45, in Missouri on 21 May.
(4) The book is as much a history of the executed as of the executioners.
(5) Mass killings, Himmler said, were a heroic task requiring great courage, loyalty to the Führer and ability to bear the suffering involved in being an executioner.
(6) Messi's incisions into Nigeria's half were as sharp and deep as a executioner's blade.
(7) In his autobiography, Executioner (1974), he expressed regret about his life's work.
(8) Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners as beheading rate soars Read more A surge in executions began towards the end of the reign of King Abdullah, who died in January.
(9) We need restraint from the police in situations like Eric’s and Michael Brown in Ferguson – not a police officer acting as judge, jury and executioner – we need that kind of crime out of our police departments across the country.” The veteran civil rights campaigner Al Sharpton called on the crowd not to oppose the police department per se, but to call on New York mayor Bill de Blasio to reform it.
(10) He was the lead executioner for Isis, and let us never forget he killed many, many Muslims too.
(11) First, he escaped his designated fate because the executioners decided there were not enough Jews in his consignment to warrant firing up the machinery of mass murder.
(12) The IRA concealed a 500lb bomb inside a car and detonated it as Gibson drove past, then issued a statement in which they condemned the judge for supporting “RUC executioners” and said that he too had been brought to the “final court of justice”.
(13) At moments it almost seems so: as if Roper actually enjoys being a partner in his own destruction, just for the pleasure of pairing with someone as intelligent and ruthless as himself; almost as if he’s a little in love with his own executioner.
(14) Many are being trained as spies, preachers, soldiers, “executioners” and suicide bombers.
(15) An unnamed boss leading the rite in police videos published on Italian newspaper websites can be heard telling the new Santa that they are now expected to be their own executioners should they stray from the ’Ndrangheta’s code.
(16) He refused to wear a blindfold so, it is said, he could look his executioners - who were also his comrades - in the eye.
(17) Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, described rules such as Missouri’s as a “distortion” of the principle of anonymity for executioners.
(18) Steve Fielding sketches the outline of the family story in Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners, The Story of Britain's Infamous Hangmen (2006).
(19) The people behind Nemtsov’s assassination know how useful it is to use Chechens as executioners, given the predictable reaction from Kadyrov, it means the investigators never get further.” That explains why, although Kadyrov has been fingered for the Nemtsov killing, many people blame someone higher: his boss in the Kremlin, the man who created the environment in which Kadyrov thrives.
(20) A sole “executioner” to turn prosecutor’s evidence at the trials, Dražen Erdemovic, described how death squads asked to sit down – they were so tired, killing wave upon wave, busload after busload, of men and boys.
Executor
Definition:
(n.) One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.
(n.) An executioner.
(n.) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In other cases, family members have identified members of the police as the executors of these murders, killing women as retaliation for gang attacks on police officers.
(2) Leonie Gombrich, his granddaughter and literary executor, described his change of heart when we met last week in New York.
(3) Anthea Grant died earlier this year, and named her sons Patrick and Josh as the executors of her will.
(4) الرقة تذبح بصمت (@Raqqa_SL) 1- #Raqqa Leena Al-Qasem (35 years) executor was her son Ali Saqr (born 1995) a member of #ISIS .
(5) "When Sylvia died Ted knew that Olwyn hated her and he appointed her as the sole executor for her work.
(6) So it's unsurprising that, half a century on, the arguments about her burn with ever-greater fervour, as proven by the extraordinary battle conducted last week in the Guardian's books section between Plath's friend Elizabeth Sigmund and a characteristically combative Olwyn Hughes , Ted Hughes's sister and the literary executor of Plath's estate.
(7) It is the executor's responsibility to deal with the estate of the person who died; that is, everything they owned.
(8) For a calm executor of a gameplan and a formidably accurate goal-kicker, there is a point where Farrell and his senses part company, usually when defeat or a setback is looming and he cannot control his frustration.
(9) Savile had appointed National Westminster bank as executor of his will.
(10) When Spark died in Italy in 2006, Jardine became her heir and literary executor.
(11) As a result, there was indifference on the part of enterprises, indifference and inadequate organization of occupational health services as executors of the specific health care measures, and indulgence on the part of the court, inspecting services and other competent bodies.
(12) In her art, Fay, who is also the joint executor with her sister Bea, of Ballard's literary estate , is echoing the work of her father, whose protagonists are often engaged in a desperate search for meaning following some catastrophic event, and who have to adapt to a harsh new environment.
(13) Upon this region, proposed as the PS FINAL COMMON REGION, conveges rostral and caudal information making it the executor of all PS phenomena.
(14) The community outreach program (COP) is based at a large southern university, where the nursing care center serves as executor of the project.
(15) He also left a large unpaid tax bill and such a mess of rights issues around the use of his beats – many given out freely on CDs to friends before his death – that the executor of his estate (also his accountant) Arty Erk, had to take out an ad in Billboard in April 2008 requesting that people stop using his client's work.
(16) Nine months later the executor of the estate filed a $2 million malpractice suit against the defendant doctor and the defendant hospital for wrongful death.
(17) It was shown that only calmodulin and troponin C but not parvalbumin bind calcium ions with concomitant formation of hydrophobic sites that are responsible for interaction with the "executor enzymes".
(18) Also, the information mechanisms which link planners, executors and the 'clients', were examined.
(19) The same, stifling July heat does not reach the swanky air-conditioned rooms where the advocates and executors of India’s new industrial corridors are based.
(20) Three executors will now be tasked with winding up the estate and carrying out Mandela's wishes: Moseneke, George Bizos, a lawyer and friend of Mandela for 65 years, and Themba Sangoni, the chief judge in Eastern Cape province, where Mandela was born.